Article Information
- Received February 14, 2011
- Revision received April 29, 2011
- Accepted May 21, 2011
- First published July 20, 2011.
- Version of record published July 20, 2011.
Author Information
- Tomomi Tsunematsu1,2,
- Thomas S. Kilduff3,
- Edward S. Boyden4,
- Satoru Takahashi5,
- Makoto Tominaga1,2, and
- Akihiro Yamanaka1,2,6
- 1Division of Cell Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan,
- 2Department of Physiological Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan,
- 3Biosciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025,
- 4Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
- 5Laboratory Animal Resource Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8575, Japan, and
- 6Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: T.T., T.S.K., and A.Y. designed research; T.T. and A.Y. performed research; T.T., E.S.B., S.T., and A.Y. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; T.T., T.S.K., and A.Y. analyzed data; T.T., T.S.K., E.S.B., M.T., and A.Y. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received February 14, 2011.
- Revision received April 29, 2011.
- Accepted May 21, 2011.
This study was supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology program, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (A), Scientific Research on Priority Areas (Integrative Brain Research) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (A.Y.), a Japan Society for Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellowship (T.T.), and NIH Grant R01NS057464 (T.S.K.). We thank C. Saito and K. Nishimura for technical assistance and Dr. Jaime Heiss for useful comments on this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Akihiro Yamanaka, Division of Cell Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institute of Natural Sciences, Okazaki 444-8787. yamank{at}nips.ac.jp
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